I wonder if we ought to have thanked him for them?
After all, we don't _know_ that they came from him.

The only present we _know_ came from him was Flick." "And a damned silly present, too!" observed Jack, drily.
"Do you think he's still in love with Betty ?" asked Rosamund.
"Of course he's not.

If he was, he would have written to her, not to Timmy.

Nine years is a long time in a man's life," observed Jack sententiously.
"My hat! yes!" exclaimed Tom.

"Poor Betty!" Jack got up, and made a movement as if he were thinking of going out through the window into the garden.